Women In Combat: A Draft, Military Weakness Next?

Military: The Obama administration putting women into combat shows that radical feminism has come a long way, baby. Come the next major war will our daughters be drafted into an emasculated service?

'Your mother wears combat boots" used to be a joke. We may soon see how funny American mothers think it is when their daughters are being raped in POW camps.

Signs of the decline of civilization are all around us, but sending the fairer sex to the front lines with bayonets and grenades is especially ominous.

The Pentagon on Thursday officially lifted the ban on women in the U.S. military serving in combat, to be phased in over three years, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta argued that females have already experienced the "reality of combat" in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

It may seem like a stretch to warn that drafting teenage girls is upon us, but consider what happened after President Carter, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis, called for mandatory Selective Service registration for all young men.

As former Investor's Business Daily Washington bureau chief Brian Mitchell pointed out in his 1999 book "Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster," the legislation Carter sent to Congress the next week "included young women on an equal basis with young men" in Selective Service, because according to Carter "there is no distinction possible ... that would allow me to exclude women from an obligation to register."

Fortunately, Congress — under Democratic control, no less — swiftly squashed the idea of forcing women to register for a potential wartime draft.

On cue, the ACLU and the radical National Organization for Women sued and in 1981, by a frighteningly slim 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court ruled against them, affirming that a men-only draft is not unconstitutional. But when President Obama gets a couple more high court appointments how long will that precedent survive?

The article has haunted Webb and probably stopped any chance he had of being Obama's 2008 running mate. In it, he argued that "no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat" and that "their presence at institutions dedicated to the preparation of men for combat command is poisoning that preparation," in particular Webb's alma mater, the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Webb dared to say that "men fight better. We can try to intellectualize that reality away, and layer it with debates on role conditioning versus natural traits, but it manifests itself in so many ways that it becomes foolish to deny it."

Webb also noted that "men fight better without women around."

Women in combat would hurt America in another big way, not addressed by Webb but which suits radical feminists and other leftists just fine.

It is this: Women infantry could mean this country would hesitate to go to war when we must.

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